Manila – Typhoon Nesat smashed into the Philippines Tuesday, leaving at least 16 people dead, with the capital Manila enduring waist-deep floods, blackouts and dramatic storm surges. The Philippines is hit by about 20 major storms annually, many of them deadly, but the government said Nesat was one of the Read more »

In this surprising and moving documentary, filmmaker Ramona Diaz (director of Imelda) tells a little-known story of public school teachers recruited from the Philippines to assume hard-to-fill teaching posts in American schools. Following her Filipina protagonists to their new country and into the classroom, Diaz renders a powerful group Read more »

A video by Grégoire Thiébault via YouTube “This video is a patchwork of shots I have taken in the Philippines from January to April 2011. I went there to study as an exchange student in Manilla. My stay there allows me to travel in many places like Bohol, Batad, Read more »

The CCP Jesus Christ exhibit: It ain’t art HINDSIGHT By F Sionil Jose (The Philippine Star) The artist who set up that controversial Jesus Christ exhibit at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) the other week must be grinning and enjoying all that brouhaha that has made Read more »

Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) — Philippine Senator Benigno Aquino III said he will run for president next year, after he was urged to become a candidate following the death last month of his mother, former President Corazon Aquino.

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